Automatic door-opener



(No Model.)

B. GENAUST- AUTOMATIC DOOR OPENER. No. 559,448. "Patented May 5, 1896.

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UNITED STATES ATENT OFFICE.

BERNARD GENAUST, OF EFFINGI-IAM, ILLINOIS.

AUTOMATIC DOOR-OPENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 559,448, dated May 5,1896.

Application filed June 8,1895. Serial No. 652,190- (No modelil To allwhom it may concern).-

Be it known that I, BERNARD GENAUST, a citizen of the United States,residing at Effingham, in the county of Efiingham and State of Illinois,have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in AutomaticDoor-Openers, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, formingpart of this specification.

My invention relates to all kinds of doors, but especially toscreen-doors, and my object is to open the door with the pressure of thefoot in case the hands are otherwise engaged.

To this end my invention consists in a pcculiar mechanism andcombination of parts more fully described hereinafter, and embodied inthe claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a front elevation ofmy complete invention as applied to an ordinary screendoor; Fig. 2, aside View, and Fig. 3 a top view, thereof.

The reference-numeral l is a guideway secured to the front lower cornerof. the doorcasing.

2 is a foot-piece riveted to slide-bar 3 and sliding in said guideway.The wire 4 connects slide-bar 3 to lever5, pivoted on plate 6 at 13.Said plate is secured to the front upper corner of the door casing.lVire 7 connects said lever 5 to rack-bar 8 at 16.

tion of a foot-piece sliding in a guideway secured to the front lowercorner of a doorcasing; a lever pivoted on a plate secured at the frontupper corner of the same; a bracket at the rear upper corner of theeasing; arack-bar sliding in said bracket; wires connecting the saidslide-bar, lever and rackbar; alever pivoted in the bracket, and gearedto the rack-bar; an antifriction-roller carried by the gear=-lever, anda bearing at the top of the door for said gear-lever, all substantiallyas described.

BERNARD GENAUST.

\Vitnesses:

BARNEY OvERBnoK, JOHN N. Giants.

